New

The executive guide to generative AI

Read more

Potential Protocol Tunneling via EarthWorm

edit

Potential Protocol Tunneling via EarthWorm

edit

Identifies the execution of the EarthWorm tunneler. Adversaries may tunnel network communications to and from a victim system within a separate protocol to avoid detection and network filtering, or to enable access to otherwise unreachable systems.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

  • auditbeat-*
  • logs-endpoint.events.*
  • endgame-*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Host
  • Linux
  • Threat Detection
  • Command and Control
  • Elastic Endgame

Version: 102

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

edit

Rule query

edit
process where event.type == "start" and
 process.args : "-s" and process.args : "-d" and process.args : "rssocks"

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Was this helpful?
Feedback